GALE DEPARTURE CONFIRMED

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Re: Gale

Post by casjunction » 25 Sep 2019, 00:33

Don't tell em Pike.!

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Re: Gale

Post by westerbeast » 25 Sep 2019, 06:53

Hope we are not after Hampshire ](*,)

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Re: Gale

Post by heritage1926 » 25 Sep 2019, 08:06

westerbeast wrote: 25 Sep 2019, 06:53 Hope we are not after Hampshire ](*,)
I wouldn't of thought so. He want's first team rugby, not something we can offer him.

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Post by tigerfeat » 25 Sep 2019, 08:19

Didn't Powell like to play him on the wing
Wouldn't surprise me at all if we were interested in him
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Post by Mysterio » 25 Sep 2019, 08:29

I have heard the same too; a third party has unexpectedly joined the party after discussions around their roster and the fact Gale is seemingly available.

I hear they've offered significantly more for Luke so we had a duty to let him know as it's a good deal all around.

That's as much as I know
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Re: Gale

Post by thedogvinnie » 25 Sep 2019, 08:37

CasRus wrote: 24 Sep 2019, 13:29
Scoopage wrote: 24 Sep 2019, 13:14
Fumper27 wrote: 24 Sep 2019, 12:56 Just received the below from a good friend and source whose not got many wrong yet:

Gale having medical today. So is Richardson at Cas. Gale gone for 150k on a 3 year deal. I believe this is Gale’s second medical
I’m tipping its the 3 years contract that’s convinced him to move.be one last big payout.tbf I think gale could play at super League level another 5/6 years if he stays injury free.
To be honest, Gale is a great player but I think we may have seen the best from him and it would be all downhill from here as he will be slowing up as father time comes calling.

If it's true about Richardson coming, then I think this will be a much better option than keeping Gale and have the money to get him as he looks to me like a future crackerjack and operating with Trueman and getting a great understanding in time with him may prove to be a "Hardisty and Hepworth" of old and could be the making of Cas when you also consider Watts/Feki and a few others that has the potential to make a great and fantastic side (so long as we can keep them together which is always the worry when money comes calling!).
Players slowing down sometimes improves their game or at least adds to it, remember Mal Reilly, he could beat a man stood still near the end of his career, not saying that Gale is comparable to Mal but that bit more time allows great players to see more options

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Re: Gale

Post by tigerfeat » 25 Sep 2019, 08:48

Surely at this stage Gale won't change his mind and want to move somewhere else I heard it was a fantastic deal Leeds had put to him
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Post by nottinghamtiger » 25 Sep 2019, 08:58

Mysterio wrote: 25 Sep 2019, 08:29 I have heard the same too; a third party has unexpectedly joined the party after discussions around their roster and the fact Gale is seemingly available.

I hear they've offered significantly more for Luke so we had a duty to let him know as it's a good deal all around.

That's as much as I know

I can’t see it, to be honest.
St Helens have Lomax and Fages.
Wigan - they look like they will play Bevan French at half next year. Regardless, Gale is too similar to Hastings for them to play together. And they’ve replaced a marquee player who counted as 75k on the cap with two marquee players who will count for 300k on the cap (a bit suspicious already if you ask me).
Warrington have Austin and Widdop for next year.
Hull have Sneyd and Kelly.
Other than Leeds, I don’t see another club who could tempt him. Except Toronto, but I don’t think he’d be interested.

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Post by Mucky1978 » 25 Sep 2019, 09:03

Hull FC

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Re: Gale

Post by nottinghamtiger » 25 Sep 2019, 09:11

Mucky1978 wrote: 25 Sep 2019, 09:03Hull FC
I don’t think it would be a good signing for them. He’s far too similar to Sneyd.
There have been mutterings of Albert Kelly leaving them, but even then I’m not sure Gale is the right fit there.

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Post by westerbeast » 25 Sep 2019, 09:13

Hull kr would be my guess.

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Post by heritage1926 » 25 Sep 2019, 09:35

Mysterio wrote: 25 Sep 2019, 08:29 I have heard the same too; a third party has unexpectedly joined the party after discussions around their roster and the fact Gale is seemingly available.

I hear they've offered significantly more for Luke so we had a duty to let him know as it's a good deal all around.

That's as much as I know
A bidding war would be nice for us, get as much cash as we can for him. However, I can't see KR outbidding Leeds for him.

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Re: Gale

Post by casfanfromcov » 25 Sep 2019, 09:39

I was told by a Hull fan last week, Leeds offered £500,000 for Connor, but they turned it down. If Hull change their mind or Leeds increase the offer, that would leave Hull with a lot of money to spare

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Re: Gale

Post by mart0042 » 25 Sep 2019, 10:08

Toronto could make the bid, they beat us to O'brien and tried for watts. If a deal for the player coming in is in place whatever, we might just come out laughing.

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Re: Gale

Post by heritage1926 » 25 Sep 2019, 10:21

Luke’s top end of the of the scrum halves in the league, but at 31 and 12 month out of rugby, I’m dumbfounded teams are willing to pay a high price for him. He will be 32 not long in to the 2020 season starting.

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Post by jackknife » 25 Sep 2019, 10:31

I read that the Toronto centre (Leutele) was the highest paid centre in the world on $800K a year now if they was offering gale 3years of that im sure he'd take it.
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Re: Gale

Post by tigerfeat » 25 Sep 2019, 11:56

Toronto might not even be in super league next season he wanted the move to Leeds and at the last minute hes going to decide nah id rather be at Toronto or Hkr id be amazed if hes thinking along them lines...
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Re: Gale

Post by HuddsTigers » 25 Sep 2019, 13:09

Powell's latest comments in the YEP in written format are interesting to read. To me it sounds as if he knows Leeds have made an offer but it feels like it may be a case that it's been knocked back or we're waiting to see if another offer comes in.

“Luke Gale is contracted to us next year and, as of this moment in time, that’s the way it will remain.”
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Re: Gale

Post by heritage1926 » 25 Sep 2019, 13:25

HuddsTigers wrote: 25 Sep 2019, 13:09 Powell's latest comments in the YEP in written format are interesting to read. To me it sounds as if he knows Leeds have made an offer but it feels like it may be a case that it's been knocked back or we're waiting to see if another offer comes in.

“Luke Gale is contracted to us next year and, as of this moment in time, that’s the way it will remain.”
He's just being diplomatic and stating a fact, whilst not giving anything away. Until Luke is in Leeds or any other clubs colours, he is at the moment still a Cas player and still has a contract for next season.

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Re: Gale

Post by bane73 » 25 Sep 2019, 14:00

Let the bidding war commense :dance:
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